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Re: Ye Be An OOC Thread - Adventures In Delayed Updates
« Reply #3060 on: March 08, 2014, 04:51:45 pm »

Gah, now I need to figure out whether to denounce them as liars, try to justify humanity, or denounce the human race as fellow heathen cowards.

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« Reply #3061 on: March 08, 2014, 04:53:23 pm »

Probably the latter, perhaps the first as well.
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« Reply #3062 on: March 08, 2014, 05:11:29 pm »

Um, wouldn't mixing magic and antimagic make giant magic explosions?
Actually, the interesting thing is, no.

Think of how matter and anti-matter interact. Yes, they make giant explosions; because they're matter, and all of the energy that makes them up is being turned into, well, energy, rather than the matter it was before. But what is magic? Magic is energy, right? So it can't annihilate itself by turning into more energy, now can it? Instead, it probably either turns into minute specks of matter,  something we don't even have the ability to comprehend, or perhaps a different form of energy like neutrinos.

He sounds like a blank. Like a hole in magic. I can accept it as "He is extremely hard to directly attack with supernatural powers". Having the shared pool works - it would take serious effort to overcome the effect on himself. I'd suggest you specify just what sort of spells he can cast, though.

Play around with it a bit. It's almost there, but something doesn't quite work.
Aye, I still am not quite happy with it, either. As for the blank part; I was considering that, and I'm not sure if that's what I want to go with, but if I do/if something similar occurs, such as the antimagick(and because it probably infuses him and his equipment, would effectively negate most magic that came into contact with it, although if there was enough it would overwhelm it and so forth), and ANYWAY, if I did want something like that, it would probably be a matter of skill on behalf of the affecting party; he could never be attacked directly, but if they were clever and figured it out or knew before hand, and had the skill to do so, they could probably make small adjustments so that the spell became simply a series of non-magical events before it hit him; instead of a fireball that explodes when it hits him, an ultra-dense packet of super-heated gas and particles that is held in place by magic, thus exploding when it hits him because of the release. Needless to say, things such as Wall of Force and Magic Missile would have no effect.

But I think I might be more likely for him simply to be really good at warding, counterspells, mana drain, silence, disrupting focus, all that good stuff. Possibly enchantments to some small degree, to perform upkeep on his equipment(his armor would probably be really heavily warded, of course).
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« Reply #3063 on: March 08, 2014, 06:26:37 pm »

Why is it, that whenever Morgred's talents would be most useful he is not there? I could resolve this whole thing so easily with some soul magic and necromancy and a curse or two, making everyone happy!

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« Reply #3064 on: March 08, 2014, 06:28:35 pm »

Why is it, that whenever Morgred's talents would be most useful he is not there? I could resolve this whole thing so easily with some soul magic and necromancy and a curse or two, making everyone happy!
On who, exactly?

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« Reply #3065 on: March 08, 2014, 06:31:43 pm »

Why is it, that whenever Morgred's talents would be most useful he is not there? I could resolve this whole thing so easily with some soul magic and necromancy and a curse or two, making everyone happy!
On who, exactly?
The most basic thing that I could do is set it up that whenever one of their people is enslaved, it makes it so that the enslaver must obey their commands. Wouldn't be TOO hard to pull off I don't think.

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« Reply #3066 on: March 08, 2014, 07:09:56 pm »

So a trigger enchantment on a person that only triggers when they're enslaved. How exactly the trigger would know someone is in such a predicament would probably be fuzzy.

With how magic-heavy the setting is I wouldn't be surprised if all to-be-enslaved are routinely scanned for any possible magic/sustained magic on them to avoid any such nasty surprises, then an enchantment of their own slapped on to force them to obey a command word or a specific person.

You'd either need to set the the proc to be on being scanned or on the enslavement enchantment, but if you do the first I can see easy friendly fire, if you do the latter I can see the enchantment being removed before that step is reached.

It would have to be pretty well hidden or pretty well resistant. The latter being the worse of the two however.

EDIT: Never mind that such an effect may be obvious in the first place. The whole 'forking over people to be enslaved' was to prevent genocide, a trick would probably remove any safety they had in their terrible deal.

Either way, it seems that the human kingdom in the area is having some conflicts with them and the Drow have retaliated.
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« Reply #3067 on: March 08, 2014, 07:22:57 pm »

Also, did we just decide Sylvaris was retconned in? I'm confused.
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« Reply #3068 on: March 08, 2014, 07:24:05 pm »

I think so.
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« Reply #3069 on: March 08, 2014, 07:25:51 pm »

What Grizzly said.

So, what's our game plan here? And our specific mission, 'cause with how this is we may need to abuse the wording of it horribly. I think getting some info from the surrounding humans would be a good idea, everybody puts themselves as the heroes and all that so we're probably only getting half of the story here.

The important part is that who attacked the village? Blue and Green are okay with the tribute, Orange not so much, but enough to go against the other two clans? They do the tribute to avoid a war, yet someone's trying to start one.
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« Reply #3070 on: March 08, 2014, 07:34:22 pm »

Well in any case the first thing Daethwin's going to do is facepalm.
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The second thing he's going to do is use a spell of 'Shut it' on Thales.
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« Reply #3071 on: March 08, 2014, 07:50:15 pm »

The second thing he's going to do is use a spell of 'Shut it' on Thales.
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« Reply #3072 on: March 08, 2014, 08:01:32 pm »

Since I'm the one being polite, I doubt it.

And you can try. I suppose I could just use the little ditty instead. Have fun with that WAVE OF PORN. :p I'm sure you'll even grow to enjoy the experience, given enough repeated exposure.
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« Reply #3073 on: March 08, 2014, 08:08:00 pm »

Actually I think it was said he enjoyed it the first time around. Something about him wanting to know everything, and that does mean everything.

...Wonder if he wants to know what it's like to be inferior to peers. We can probably goad him into being humble if we get him to look at it as a learning experience, who is he, a follower of knowledge, to shirk such experiences?

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« Reply #3074 on: March 08, 2014, 08:09:22 pm »

I thought you said it made me get psychically shot in the chest again?

Actually I think it was said he enjoyed it the first time around. Something about him wanting to know everything, and that does mean everything. ...Wonder if he wants to know what it's like to be inferior to peers.
Just a point. Everything does mean EVERYTHING.
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